Residents on Alaska's vast and sparsely populated western coast braced Friday for a powerful storm that forecasters said could be one of the worst in recent history, threatening hurricane-force winds ...

Iran's president has ordered a probe in the case of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who slipped into a coma while in custody in Tehran and died, state media reported on Friday. She was reportedly detained ...

Kyrgyzstan accused neighbouring Tajikistan of firing at its border guards Friday evening, hours after the security chiefs of the two countries agreed on a ceasefire.

The Phantom of the Opera — Broadway's longest-running show — is scheduled to close in February 2023, the biggest victim yet of the post-pandemic softening in theatre attendance in New York. ...

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at why a group of developing countries is hoping to make climate finance a key issue at the upcoming COP27 and examine the unintended effect...

Dylan Fernandes says Florida's Republican governor is a "coward" for shipping 48 migrants to a Massachusetts island with no warning or information just to make a point.

Five Lebanese banks were held up by depositors seeking access to their own money frozen in the banking system on Friday in a spiralling spate of holdups this week spurred by frustration over a financi...

What do the sex lives of constipated scorpions, a life-size rubber moose and complex legal documents have in common? They all inspired the winners of this year's Ig Nobels, the international prize for...

From galaxies, nebulas, our sun and more, this year's winners in the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition are jaw-dropping.

Flash floods swept through several towns Friday in hilly central Italy after hours of exceptionally heavy rain, leaving 10 people dead and at least four missing. Dozens of survivors scrambled onto roo...

Two minutes of silence will be observed across the United Kingdom at the end of Queen Elizabeth's state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday, giving people across the nation a chance to pay their re...

For many Brits, multiple days of pomp and protocol paid for by the state are hard to square with what they see as an urgent economic crisis the government needs to address now. 

A U.S. judge on Thursday refused to let the Justice Department immediately resume reviewing classified records seized by the FBI from Donald Trump's Florida estate in an ongoing criminal investigation...

A new family of wolves has been spotted in Oregon, giving conservationists hope for a species that was once nearly wiped out across the U.S.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he understood China's Xi Jinping had concerns about the situation in Ukraine, a surprise acknowledgement of friction with Beijing over the war after a...

Three members of Mexico's army have been arrested for alleged connection to the disappearance of 43 students in southern Mexico in 2014, the government announced Thursday.

The Bird Migration Explorer combines millions of observations on hundreds of bird species, linking countries and continents via bird migrations. "This really is groundbreaking," says Jeff Wells of the...

President Joe Biden plans to meet at the White House on Friday with family members of WNBA star Brittney Griner and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan, both of whom remain jailed in Rus...

Roger Federer announced Thursday that he is retiring from professional tennis at age 41 after winning 20 Grand Slam titles.